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Abstract This article outlines the growth and character of media and communication studies in the UK. It sets out the history and development of the field, and explains its twin origins in both humanities and social sciences contexts. The article also presents some descriptive data about the scale and nature of teaching and research in ...
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‘Things Greater than Thou’: Post-Apocalyptic Religion in Games
In the literature on religion in games, two broad types of religion have been depicted: on the one hand, historical religions—Christian, Muslim and Buddhist narratives, tropes and symbols—and, on the other hand, fiction-based religion ...
Lars de Wildt+3 more
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Digitized learning materials are a core part of modern education, and analysis of the use can offer insight into the learning behavior of high and low performing students.
Brendan Flanagan+2 more
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Background: The datafication scenario of the current communicative ecosystem poses a challenge to media and digital literacy, especially in terms of participation and civic and democratic engagement of youth.
Mireia Montaña Blasco+4 more
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Screencasts in Media Studies [PDF]
This paper will focus on whether screencasts, loosely defined as the “audio-visual presentation of lecture notes” (Seery, 2013: 82), might provide a viable alternative to full lecture capture that enhances the learning and teaching experiences of both lecturers and students.
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The Turn to Affect and Emotion in Media Studies
This editorial delivers an introduction to the thematic Media and Communication issue on “The Turn to Affect and Emotion in Media Studies”. The social and cultural formation of affect and emotion has been of central interest to social science-based ...
Margret Lünenborg, Tanja Maier
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Think before you collect: Setting up a data collection approach for social media studies [PDF]
This chapter discusses important challenges of designing the data collection setup for social media studies. It outlines how it is necessary to carefully think about which data to collect and to use, and to recognize the effects that a specific data ...
Philipp Mayr, Katrin Weller
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This paper develops and presents a mixed-methods approach as a contribution to relational journalism studies. The approach aims to retrace the making of publics in digital media environments through the performative contributions of heterogeneous groups ...
Wolfgang Reißmann+3 more
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The Covid-19 pandemic reveals and exacerbates inequalities in various ways. Gender inequalities—intertwined with intersectional differences along class, ethnicity, or origin—are highly visible.
Margreth Lünenborg+2 more
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De-Westernization and Decolonization in Media Studies
The need to de-Westernize and decolonize communication and media studies is based on criticisms on a dominant elitist “Western” axiology and epistemology of universal validity, leaving aside indigenous and localized philosophical traditions originating ...
Antje Glück
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